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Flat White

Somewhere in Sri Lanka, someone is making something.

5 August 2017

4:02 PM

5 August 2017

4:02 PM

Researching history with the hope that your research will eventually turn itself into a book can take you places. It’s taken me to Colombo, a thriving port-city that, under the British raj, became the important capital of what was then British Ceylon, now Sri Lanka.

Colombo has always been a trading port.

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